#014: Do Chatbots Deserve Free Speech Rights? Plus: Apple Caught Snitching on Our Push Notifications

#014: Do Chatbots Deserve Free Speech Rights? Plus: Apple Caught Snitching on Our Push Notifications

Chatbots are under legal scrutiny, Apple’s handing over your push alerts, and one AI just wants everyone to get along.

#013: How to Make Your Phone Boring (On Purpose)

#013: How to Make Your Phone Boring (On Purpose)

This week: how to trick yourself into putting down your phone.

#015: Meta AI Made a Content Feed Out of Users' Overshares

#015: Meta AI Made a Content Feed Out of Users' Overshares

Meta makes private chats public, airlines fund surveillance, and OpenAI fights (unsuccessfully) to keep its privacy promises.

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#012: Big Brother Has Gone Corporate: Your DNA just Sold for $17 A Head

Surveillance tech expands, 23andMe cashes out, and a conductor finds his rhythm again.

#011: OpenAI Gets Honest, TikTok Gets Mindful & SoundCloud Listens

Can OpenAI, TikTok & SoundCloud make amends? Meanwhile, KOSA faces backlash and the FTC hits pause on Click-to-Cancel.

#010: The Waymo Experience: Sit Back, Relax, Get Recorded

If AI can record you, undress you, and monetize you...what protections do you have? Here's where we're at.

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#015: Meta AI Made a Content Feed Out of Users' Overshares

#015: Meta AI Made a Content Feed Out of Users' Overshares

Meta makes private chats public, airlines fund surveillance, and OpenAI fights (unsuccessfully) to keep its privacy promises.

Siara Singleton
Siara Singleton
#014: Do Chatbots Deserve Free Speech Rights? Plus: Apple Caught Snitching on Our Push Notifications

#014: Do Chatbots Deserve Free Speech Rights? Plus: Apple Caught Snitching on Our Push Notifications

Chatbots are under legal scrutiny, Apple’s handing over your push alerts, and one AI just wants everyone to get along.

Siara Singleton
Siara Singleton
#013: How to Make Your Phone Boring (On Purpose)

#013: How to Make Your Phone Boring (On Purpose)

This week: how to trick yourself into putting down your phone.

Siara Singleton
Siara Singleton
#012: Big Brother Has Gone Corporate: Your DNA just Sold for $17 A Head

#012: Big Brother Has Gone Corporate: Your DNA just Sold for $17 A Head

Surveillance tech expands, 23andMe cashes out, and a conductor finds his rhythm again.

Siara Singleton
Siara Singleton
#011: OpenAI Gets Honest, TikTok Gets Mindful & SoundCloud Listens

#011: OpenAI Gets Honest, TikTok Gets Mindful & SoundCloud Listens

Can OpenAI, TikTok & SoundCloud make amends? Meanwhile, KOSA faces backlash and the FTC hits pause on Click-to-Cancel.

Siara Singleton
Siara Singleton
#010: The Waymo Experience: Sit Back, Relax, Get Recorded

#010: The Waymo Experience: Sit Back, Relax, Get Recorded

If AI can record you, undress you, and monetize you...what protections do you have? Here's where we're at.

Siara Singleton
Siara Singleton
#009: Smile! Meta Might Be Using That Photo to Train Its AI

#009: Smile! Meta Might Be Using That Photo to Train Its AI

Meta drops a new AI app while listening through your Ray-Bans, Texas bans social media for kids, and dating apps get real(er).

Siara Singleton
Siara Singleton
#008: Stopping Deepfakes or Silencing Speech? Musk and Minnesota Face Off

#008: Stopping Deepfakes or Silencing Speech? Musk and Minnesota Face Off

Musk uses free speech shield to protect deepfakes, families hold vigil at Meta HQ, and new grants from Harry and Meghan will fuel a movement for a safer internet.

Siara Singleton
Siara Singleton
#007: What Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads Users Should Know About The Meta Whistleblower

#007: What Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads Users Should Know About The Meta Whistleblower

Meta faces Congress, ChatGPT plays detective, and one lab asks if AI chatbots can be bullies.

Siara Singleton
Siara Singleton
#006: The NYC Tech Founder Who Hasn’t Used a Smartphone in 7 Years

#006: The NYC Tech Founder Who Hasn’t Used a Smartphone in 7 Years

GPT 4.5 officially passes the Turing Test, a human ditches his smartphone for good, and state bills starts treating Big Tech like Big Tobacco.

Siara Singleton
Siara Singleton
#005: Privacy. That’s Apple— except in the UK.

#005: Privacy. That’s Apple— except in the UK.

Apple quietly disables iCloud encryption in the UK. The Light Phone adds a camera. NICUs add livestreams for peace of mind.

Siara Singleton
Siara Singleton
#004: How to Save and Protect Your Genetic Data Before 23andMe Folds

#004: How to Save and Protect Your Genetic Data Before 23andMe Folds

Protect your DNA in a post-23andMe world, decode Utah’s latest tech regulation, and meet the app trying to make social media civil again.

Siara Singleton
Siara Singleton
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